RebeccaBoyd
Crossing the Road
I just found a hole in my local market with a breed I love. To me local is a 2 hour distance one way. I went that distance to acquire my original Marans. My local Rural King offers Midnight Majesty Marans, which is not the same as Black Copper Marans. What I can offer up from my current flock this year when I hatch will be pure Black Copper Marans, Marans mixes and pure silkies. If they are sold as straight run a few days after hatching to make sure they are eating and drinking well the pure marans will be 4 per chick, the mixes 2 per chick and the silkies will go as 5 per chick. The longer I keep them price will adjust accordingly, and known pullets will be a little bit more then a known cockerel. I can also offer up if they want them hatching eggs of each variety.Hope you have a gentleman for a rooster. You might benefit from reading any of @Shadrach 's articles, he is very knowledgeable on hen/rooster/flock dynamics. Hens invite a roosters attentions and a good rooster respects the hens.
Being a hen locked up with nowhere to run, trapped with a potentially rough, and relentless rooster in 5 and 10 square feet, a rooster who has no manners or training by an experienced older rooster, sounds like a nightmare for the poor hens. Be careful who you put in there together.
Sorry but unless I am mistaken or off-base this sounds like a plan you have to raise and sell chickens in an ongoing breeding program, correct? Can you put the hens and a rooster that you want to breed into a large proper run and coop of their own? Long term, that is a more healthy and humane way of going about it and the way I've seen breeders do it here on BYC.
You might concentrate on a certain breed for your entire flock and sidestep the whole separation issue. Also look at @RebeccaBoyd 's posts here or ask her advice, she breeds chickens and sells chicks in a free-range situation.